Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES HENRY P. BRIGGS, OF BROOKFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

lMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,812, dated April 1, 1862.

To aZZ whom t 11mg/ concern.-

Beit known that I, HENRY P. BRIGGS, of Brookfield, county of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specication and drawing.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

By referring tothe accompanying drawing and description the nature of this improvement in washing-machines will be readily understood, in whicha. is the bench on which the mechanism is arranged, and is supported at its proper or desired height by the legs b.

c represents a tub secured onto the bench a.

d are ledges arranged in diverging lines from the center of the tub.

e is a disk, having ledges CZ secured to the under side at an angle of about two degrees with the center line thereof to produce (by the joint action of the two ledge surfaces) a more perfect and effectual rubbing-surface to actupon the clothes placed between them. The posts ff, with the yoke g, are secured together on the upper side of the disk e, so as to revolve or oscillate upon the stud or spindle h, first, for the purpose of steading it in its place, and, second, to communicate power or motion to the disk e.

vl t' are the operating-levers, secured to the bench ct by plate and strap-hinge j, and the connection formed from the levers i to the yoke g by hook-arms 71:.

m is a spiral spring placed upon the upper end of the spindle h, one end resting upon the yoke g and is secured thereto, and its pressure upon the disk eis graduated by raising or lowering the pin n.

The clothes and suds are pl-acedin this machine in t-he usualway, andasemi-rotary motion is given to the disk e by working the arms rfiback and forth, which produces a crosswise or drawing rub motion of the upper ledges CZ over the lower one d, which tends continually to change the position of the clothes and bring every part of them to the action of the ledges d d as the disk c oscillates back and forth, as aforesaid, and by unhooking the arms 7c and removing the pin n the disk e may be readily removed and replaced at pleasure. By this arrangement of mechanism the machine is rendered cheap and easy of construction and operation, and may be operated by one or two persons, and does its work in the most perfect manner and without injury to the clothes.

I believe I have so described the construction and operation as to enable a skilled person to make and use the same.

IVhatI claim, therefore, and desire to secure HENRY r. Emacs. [1.. s.]

Witnesses:

OLIVER A. G. TODD, P. W. BEIGGS. 

